Thursday, 22 September 2016

Roccbox arrival

A long time ago now, I decided to back something called "Roccbox".

At the time we were eating a lot of home made pizza. My attempts to make authentic pizza improved. I made a proper dough (both with and wothout semolina flour); I used a large pizza stone in my domestic oven, with the oven turned up as high as it would go (about 250 degrees fan, for about 45 minutes to heat the stone thoroughly) to get as close as possible to creating a "wood fired" pizza taste and texture. We invested in pizza peels so we could get thepizza in and out of the raging hot oven. It worked reasonably well, and was much better than pizza cooked on a baking tray.

I realised that the next step was to get a better pizza oven. We toyed with the idea of building a pizza oven in our garden. We just didn't really want to give over that much space to it (nd I wasn't sure that I'd really have the inclination to light it each time). Then "portable" pizza ovens came on the market. They were OK, but they were horrendously expensive (for what they were).

And then one day I found Roccbox, which was looking for backing. I signed up for it, and then I committed to buying one. Early backers got a bargain price, and it really did seem like a good idea.

It was a mini pizza oven that could run on wood firing or gas! Was it going to be the bext of both wrolds, or the worst of both worlds?

Time passed. As is often the case with these things, the delivery time slipped. Fortunaely, we've backed a few things and are well used to the types of delays that occur. We've learned to add 3, 6, 12 months on to the original ETA when looking at whether we want to back something.

Eventually, it was imminent.

Then the container landed.

Then it was despatched.

And then it was here!

Mine is lime green, this is a stock photo

The big box arrived, we unpacked it, and sat and looked at it on our kitchen worktop. SH went to get a bottle of gas for it (we decided we'd start with the gas and see how that went). We had other commitments that evening, so couldn't do anything.